There is no doubt this this splendid award has been very properly given to a fully deserving recipient. The incalculable prestige of the honor is a perfect match for incalculable achievements of the honoree.

Montagne once again shows his talking points come straight from The Daily Worker.

People who really accomplished something for peace - Teddy Roosevelt, George Marshall, etc - aren't pussies, but most of the Nobel awards going back to the beginning have gone to people walking around saying, "We believe in peace", without the muscle, brains, or anything else to make it stick.

Europe has, for the most part, been at peace because the Marshall Plan was backed up by US bayonets.

People like Kellogg and Briand may have gotten signatures on a treaty outlawing war, but they couldn't stop anything.

Althouse, you, a law professor, are a qualified nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize according to the guidelines here.

You should really think about nominating someone next year...say, a commenter who's made significant contributions to bloggy harmony here. Or maybe a politician who hasn't accomplished anything, but has some hopeychangey potential and reads well from a teleprompter. Or perhaps a notorious terrorist kingpin. There are many options to choose from.

In any case, it's your call, but I think you, a law professor, should consider it.

I'm just looking at the frozen image of Red State Update under the headline "Why do they give peace prizes to pussies?" next to the blog ad picture of Glenn Beck mugging for the camera in a commissar's uniform...

No wonder Althouse is such a lighting rod for those lacking a sense of humor!

Paul Ciotti: And Nobelist in Chief Obama writes in his "autobiography" that he can, from across a street, divine the evil thought patterns of white people walking their dogs."

Did he say how he could tell?

No - apparently a person's race is enough for Barrack to instantly determine a person's origin and intentions. Page 4 of DOFM: "or watch white people from the better neighborhoods nearby walk their dogs down our block to let the animals shit on our curbs." Real charmer that BO

But on second thought I think MM brings up a great point. If we all believe the Nobel Peace Prize is simply a way for these five Norwegians to express their political biases, who would win if they suddenly became five arch-conservatives?

I hate to say it but given the recent example it would be Sarah Palin, for all that she's done to keep Russian adventurism in check.

The more I am thinking about it the more grateful I am to the Nobel Committee. They succeeded in making Obama into a national punchline. All is supporters can do is scream "don't you love America", "why are conservatives so angry (they are not, they alone with everyone but Obama's most derranged supporters are laughing) and of course "that is racist!!"